运动与锻炼心理学探索参与者在体育活动中的思想，感受和行为，例如竞技体育，运动与健身，运动医学与康复，体育教育以及健康与保健。研究运动和锻炼心理学的学者寻求了解个体参与者的心理与这些体育活动环境中心理气候的影响之间的相互作用的认知，情感，行为和社会机制。在体育活动和体育科学研究领域中进行了关于体育和运动心理学主题的多学科研究和外联活动，该研究领域包括几个实验室小组，包括运动医学心理学实验室（SMPL），通过体育活动促进青少年发展研究小组和塔克中心运动中的女孩和妇女研究。
Sport and Exercise Psychology explores the thoughts, feelings, and actions of participants in physical activity contexts such as competitive sport, exercise and fitness, sports medicine and rehabilitation, physical education, and health and wellness. Scholars studying sport and exercise psychology seek to understand the cognitive, affective, behavioral, and social mechanisms underlying interactions between the psychology of individual participants and the influences of psychological climates within these physical activity settings. Multidisciplinary research and outreach on sport and exercise psychology topics are conducted in the Physical Activity and Sport Science research area, which encompasses several lab groups including the Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), the Youth Development through Physical Activity research group, and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport.